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Weekly Fraser Valley Sport Fishing Column and Report

WeeklyFraser ValleySport fishing column; Jan 20 to 27, 2014

?Fishing is not a sport I expect ever to exhaust or abandon?

Quite recently, for instance, I have caught myself working a fly close to the surface of a cold mountain lake in early spring for trivial results and remembered that I should have been searching sloughs and beaver dams? Twenty or thirty years ago I should have done the right thing almost without thinking?

I am left wondering what causes lapses like this? Laziness? Old age? Some lack of concern about catching fish? No doubt all these three play a part. But over and above them all is a measure of obstinacy mixed with some faint conceit that one should be able to force the fish, against sensible alternatives, to accept one?s own terms.? This passage was taken Roderick Haig-Brown?s book, Fisherman?s Fall.

Most anglers, sooner or later come to a place where they think having attained a competent level of knowledge and success entitles them to high catch numbers on each and every fishing trip. Decades of experience teaches such anglers that fish, like all living creatures have a mind their own. There is a misconception that we can dominate creatures of a less sophisticated mind, like we dictate to and dominate equipment. Fish cannot be dominated, but they can be, to a point, understood. The key lies within ourselves; are we open minded enough to step away from cherished convention, or do we dogmatically hold with what others have said to be changeable truths? I have found success in fishing to be a fluid as the waters we fish. Over the next series of columns we are going to look at this interesting subject, and poke pins into the bubble, of some popular conventions in sport fishing.